Patties with meat

PATTIES WITH MEAT

Minced meat stuffing

Ingredients:

500 g. ground beef

3 large ground onions

5 cloves garlic

100 g. olive oil + oil to smear the sheets

3 large tomatoes ripe

Salt and pepper to taste

1 teaspoon ground coriander

1 teaspoon oregano

A pinch savory

6 cumin seeds

Ply

Sometimes I use ready sheet and sometimes I make my own.

When using ready-sheet buy 500 grams of crust sheet.

(In the stores with Greek products you will find the sheets of Kanakis Co which are very good)

Homemade sheet

Ingredients:

1/2 cup olive oil

125 g. margarine

1/2 cup Retsina or another white wine

60 g. sesame

600 g. about self- rising flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

Instructions

Minced meat stuffing

Peel the onions and the garlic.

Put in a pot 100 g. of olive oil and place it over medium heat.

Chop onions and garlic, pour them in the pot and stir.

Let them sauté until they become soft and tender.

Put into the pot the ground beef and stir.

Lower a little more the heat.

Let minced release its fluids and simmer in them.

As the minced boils lumps are formed.

Press them with a fork and break them.

Put into the pot salt, pepper, oregano, savory, coriander, and the seeds of cumin.

Rinse tomatoes and mince them in a food processor.

Pour them into the mince.

Let the meat to simmer until it absorbs almost all fluids.

Remove the pot from the heat and let it cool.

Patties with ready sheet

Pull the sheet from the casing.

The sheet is fold in the middle. Open it on the working surface.

Cut perpendicular to the length strips with width 12 cm each.

Cut the strips into pieces with dimensions 12CH14 cm each.

Because the sheet is thin, put two sheets the one above another to create a sturdy piece of leaf

Smear each piece of sheet with olive oil.

Take one of those sheet pieces and put in the middle of it 2 large tablespoons of minced meat stuffing.  

Place the meat in an oblong shape.

Fold the upper and lower sides of the sheet and blanket with them the meat.

Wrap the patty twice and make a cylinder.

Put the cylindrical patties into a greased and floured pan, adjacent to one another.

Continue in this way until you run out of minced meat.

It is necessary to put lots of the filling into each patty, to be delicious.

Smear lightly the upper surface with olive oil.

Scour the sesame seeds with water and you drain it

Sprinkle over the patties with sesame.

Put the pan on the bottom rack of the oven and bake at 175 degrees for 40-45 minutes.

A minute before removing them from the oven rub some hard cheese for pasta over them.

Homemade sheet

Put in a bowl the olive oil.

Rub with tomato grater the margarine into the oil.

Mix these two with a fork.

Add the resin wine and mix again.

Pour the flour into the bowl little by little, sprinkle the baking powder over it and knead.

Add flour until you achieve soft dough that does not stick to your hands.

Let the dough rest for half an hour or more.

Take a quarter of the dough and open it to a thin sheet.

Cut the sheet into oblong strips 12 cm in width.

Cut the strips into pieces with dimensions 12CH14 centimeters.

Patties with homemade sheet

Smear lightly with olive oil each piece of sheet.

Take one piece of sheet and put 2 large tablespoons of minced meat on it.  

Place the meat in the sheet in an oblong shape.

Fold the upper and lower sides of the sheet and cover the meat.

Wrap the patty twice into a cylindrical shape.

Continue this way until you run out of minced meat.

You should put lots of filling in order to be delicious.

Place the patties into greased and floured pan, adjacent to one another.

From here and then continue as described above.